countries these days. the turnout so far has been pretty good according to the electoral commission. we expect to hear more when the polls close. they re expected to close in about two hours. possible extensions to that. so far we are told more voters than expected have turned out. who s on the ballot today? well, that is one of the key issues here, gary, is people are overwhelmed by the choice. thousands of candidates are running in this election for the national congress. most of them are virtually unknown to the libyan population who, for more than 40 years, knew one man only, moammar gadhafi, and today, his picture was replaced by the pictures of thousands of people. some are individual candidates running, others are representing more than 300 political entity, islamists, liberals, different political groupings. end of the day, gary, they have to work together, no matter who emerges from this election and it s very hard to tell with no real polling who will come out f
impossible to try to achieve at this stage. and then there was a mass funeral in syria. what took place there? that happened in the southern province. if you remember, this is the prove convince where the uprising all began. there were pretty intense shelling that killed at least 19, 20 people, and another funeral going out for them that was streamed live by activists. this is where one really must admire the opposition. even though they re in the process of burying someone, who was killed at hands of government forces, for voicing their desire for regime change, they still, while the fine rals take place, capitalize on that to make it opportunity to call out against the government. this is the kind of determination we ve been seeing from the onset of this uprising, but it it s also the kind of determination that has polarized the syrian uprising to a point where getting both sides to any sort of negotiating table that would result in a peaceful resolution are again, incr
announced that we were going to sue the federal government for not doing their . we didn t want this fight their job. we didn t want this fight. now we are in it, we are in it to win. the government has failed arizona and we believe they ve failed the people of america. we counter sued. we are ready to go to war with them, as you indicated. greta: as i understand, they filed suit first against you. you re responding with your counter claim within that same suit is that correct? exactly. greta: and go ahead. we filed counter suit for their failure of not doing their job to secure our borders. failure for not enforcing the immigration laws. failure for not reimbursing the citizens of arizona for the incarceration. failure for not protecting the public safety and welfare of our citizens. and failure for not upholding
the 10th amendment and preempting the people of arizona to protect our own borders. greta: any reaction or has your attorney general had any conversations with the justice department leading up to the filing of your counter claim or even today in response to the press conference? not up to the time we filed suit he hasn t had any conversation. this afternoon, i don t know if they ve been contacted. i was notified that the federal government didn t have a comment. just about two hours ago. we are still waiting. greta: have we are in it to win it. get growth i understand. have things improved, gotten worse or stayed the same in the last three months in arizona? i think that they have probably pretty much have stayed the same. when you talk to the ranchers they still are very concerned about their safety and concerned we continually are looking at arrests of the drug tar
announced that we were going to sue the federal government for not doing their . we didn t want this fight their job. we didn t want this fight. now we are in it, we are in it to win. the government has failed arizona and we believe they ve failed the people of america. we counter sued. we are ready to go to war with them, as you indicated. greta: as i understand, they filed suit first against you. you re responding with your counter claim within that same suit is that correct? exactly. greta: and go ahead. we filed counter suit for their failure of not doing their job to secure our borders. failure for not enforcing the immigration laws. failure for not reimbursing the citizens of arizona for the incarceration. failure for not protecting the public safety and welfare of our citizens. and failure for not upholding